Cork rape trial accused admits 'I knew I was lying' to gardaí about intimate pictures

The defendant was challenged at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork on many of the details from the memo of the garda interview with him.

The young man accused of raping a girl when both of them were teenagers admitted for the first time today that they had exchanged intimate pictures two years earlier and that he had lied to investigating gardaí.

Prosecution senior counsel Alice Fawsett cross-examined the accused and said that his evidence in the witness box that the parties had exchanged nude images was the first time he had ever admitted that this occurred. The defendant agreed.